In recent weeks and months I've spoken about an unannounced dystopian sci fi project I've been working on. Well, I'm pleased to share that we can drop the "un" from that; THE INFINITE STATE has been purchased by Tor (USA), Gollancz (UK), and Fischer Tor (Germany), and is slated for a summer 2026 release.
Here's a few articles with some more info:
I'm tremendously excited about this book. Not much to share at the moment, but here's a little teaser from the DHH Rights catalogue:
THE INFINITE STATE is NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR meets FOUNDATION for the 21st century, the first in a timely and hard-hitting epic political space opera series from the Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Swan.
It is a time of fragile peace. United under the Harmonious Societies Collective, all nations across the galaxy are free to exist and practice whatever forms of government they want.
In theory.
Foremost amongst this myriad of cultures is the vast, fascist Decurion Empire, led by Pater Aeternus—the Eternal Father and head of The Party. Rigidly stratified and heavily surveilled, it is an interplanetary nation in which conformity and productivity is prized above all else and the punishment for idiosyncrasy is death—and worse.
For Katherine Fuller, wife to Party luminary Eskil Fuller—suddenly and inexplicably killed after the loss of their unborn son—Pater Aeternus is a gilded cage. But with a sudden, enormous inheritance, she has the chance to purchase colonial land—and start her own new world.
Julian Yashego is a Trillian hypersled pilot—a racing prodigy and the best in the galaxy. Lured by the promise of incredible wealth, fame, and victory, he signs to race for the Pater Aeternus team. But Julian harbours a secret: he is what The Party deems “unproductive”; and he is about to discover the cost of failure in an Empire that must be seen to win everything.
Cyprian Reis is an ageing detective for the Interior Ministry’s Inspektorate. He knows too well the punishment for pushing too hard; his marriage was forcibly dissolved by the state and his children have been taken away for re-education. So when a body washes up in the industrial district, he is perfectly happy to write it off as a sanctioned political murder. But the Empire has other plans for Cyprian yet.
When Katherine establishes her new colony, she will need help. And the opportunity for beginning anew on a virgin world will attract all manner of people—spies, refugees, revolutionaries, saboteurs. Because in a galaxy dominated by Imperial fascism, Katherine is going to create something no-one has seen for many years:
A democracy.
In the meantime you can add the book on goodreads here:
Happy reading all.
R
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